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Clandestinità

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Duro e scabroso, il racconto che dà il titolo al libro ci presenta un protagonista - che è poi uno sguardo, una voce - in fuga da una casa all'altra in un crescendo di ossessioni che lo porteranno a un conclusivo gesto brutale. Non c'è psicologia, ma il quadro nitido di una violenza quasi maniacale, reso con un tono di assoluto controllo e di traslucida freddezza.
Nel vuoto surreale del racconto La camera blu, affidanto anch'esso ad una a tonale voce monologante, un bambino scopre il sesso nella convivenza con una ignara veccia cieca. Il silenzio che avvolge i due personaggi ed esclude ogni comunicazione, è animato da invenzioni fantastiche e tuttavia non gratuite, come i foglietti che il ragazzo nasconde all'interno di una testa di gesso del Parini.
La buca ha per tema la percezione infantile e la sua naturalità. L'enorme importanza dei particolari, il senso dilatato del tempo, l'avventura degli oggetti - anche il corpo come oggetto -, sono concatenati con una logica precisa, scambiandosi indifferentemente di ruolo i fatti e le fantasie, la pura oggettualità e le metafore.
Non è convenzionale definire l'esordiente Antonio Moresco un autore nascosto e insolito, refrattario alle classificazioni correnti. Quel che in prima istanza si può dire di lui con sicurezza, è che si è in presenza di uno scrittore compiuto e maturo, dotato di una personalissima invenzione scenica e di una naturale, ferma padronanza del giusto timbro stilistico.

168 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1993

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Antonio Moresco

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Antonio Moresco is an Italian writer.
His first publications appeared late in his life, after he had been turned down by several publishers. In 1993, he published his first collection of short stories, Clandestinity, but his career-defining project is the monumental trilogy Games of Eternity, made up of Gli esordi (1998), Canti del caos (2009), and Gli increati (2015). He has published many other works, including short stories, children stories, and he has organized several collective marches throughout Italy and Europe, which have become the topics for some of his works.

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6 reviews1 follower
May 26, 2024
Despairing writings from an Italian literary genius. Most splendid, senseless nightmares, stories which read like waking at midnight, out of your mind. And solitude in complete darkness, within four walls, two 90s, wherein only the fact of their erection alone can keep company, stumbling in search of light, an interpretation of that which is uncertain, feeling from every angle; then, digging down, down, the residual axis, met with maggots. No clocks, no time, grotesque reverie, incorporeal being, non-being, and an outhouse. God strewth.
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913 reviews127 followers
October 18, 2023
Strange and grim! I thought these stories about psychosexual voyeurism and violence would be fun but actually they’re quite upsetting! Anyway The Blue Room and The King are both extremely solid works, gotta work on my Italian so I can read more Moresco
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384 reviews26 followers
May 31, 2025
In case u’re wondering how to read this book;
1. Normally. From page 1- xx
2. According to the age. Which i honestly prefer.
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9 reviews6 followers
November 4, 2023
absolutely nauseating and vertigo-inducing in this text’s utter resistance to rhetorical interpretation. one seems to slip over the bloated contusion of ‘Clandestinity’’s surface and, in one’s desire to penetrate the depths of its form, they fall into an abyssal pile of corpses. n/5
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6 reviews
August 17, 2025
Il mondo di Antonio Moresco è talmente particolare e a tratti folle che bisogna essere pronti a tutto. Ogni capitolo e ogni pagina hanno sempre qualcosa in più che può destabilizzare.
In questo libro si vive con gli occhi di un bambino e di tutti i pensieri che lo turbano nello sfondo di una grande casa.
Lettura abbastanza scorrevole. Non consiglio di leggerlo dalla parrucchiera come ho fatto io ... magari alcuni passaggi potrebbero scandalizzare la vicina di phon che sta spiando la tua lettura ahah
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162 reviews2 followers
November 26, 2025
This book is atmospheric, grotesque, and incredibly strange. I loved it.

Even though it’s structured as short stories, it often feels like a fragmented novel, since the same narrator moves through each piece at different points in his life. As the title suggests, the book is obsessed with secrecy - what’s hidden, watched & moves in the shadows and the unknowns of death.

It’s definitely not for everyone but if you enjoy books driven by vibe, abstraction, and a recurring theme, this is one to experience.
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Author 1 book87 followers
October 28, 2023
A step too far in weirdness even for me. Repulsive, repulsive stories. Gut churning. But it really hurts me to rate this so low because his other novel, Distant Light, is one of my favorite books of the year.
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January 16, 2024
My favourite scene, which is bizarre and tense, involves a character propping him himself up in an unusual position above a water heater. Wish there was more than of that and less of the body horror stuff, which didn't shock me but also didn't interest me.
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